Maple Valley is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 28,013 at the 2020 census. The city functions as a commuter town for residents, though there is an increasing amount of advertisement activity in the area.

The area was granted in 1879 by three men who were improving a trail and brought their families in. When a proclaim for a highly developed community was proposed, the names Vine Maple Valley and Maple Ridge were suggested. A vote was taken by writing the names on slips of paper and placing them in a hat. Vine Maple Valley won by 2/3, but the word “Vine” was later cut by the broadcast office because it made the post too long.

The town’s into the future history mainly had to attain with coal, lumber milling to construct homes, and a railroad that ran through town. Coal was brought in from Black Diamond to the south, but the town itself along with mined coal from Cedar Mountain. The mine was used as late as 1947.
Rail workers for lines taking into account the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Cedar River Watershed, closed off by the City of Seattle, meant more workers for those things. More residents expected more lumber milling. More lumber milling meant more workers. Suquamish tribe chairperson Martha George was born near Maple Valley in Sheridan in 1892, at a logging camp where her mom and grandmother worked as cooks.

The town grew inward. Blacksmith shops, hotels, saloons and stores took up the town in the 1910s and 1920s. Schools went going on as well. Early schools were shacks at best. A two-room school went going on in 1910, and a larger tall school was built in 1929 as the first speculative in the Tahoma School District. The school, after extensive renovations, still stands today as an elementary school. Much of this early momentum actually did not accept place in the modern-day city, but rather in Hobart, northeast of incorporated Maple Valley.